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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2016
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Vanity Fair’s Little Gold Men podcast, Mike, Richard, and Joanna discuss Stranger Things, the new Netflix series that’s a scary, nostalgic blast. Then we’re joined by our colleague Julie Miller for a ComicCon preview. Plus: Emmys snubs and surprises, a spoiler-y chat about Ghostbusters, and a look at the 1983 best picture Oscar race.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, the podcast that proves that award season is a year-round affair. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Vanity Fair digital director Mike Hogan and I'm here with |
| 0:14.9 | our film critic Richard Lawson. Hello and senior writer Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:19.3 | Hi. And we will be joined later in the episode today by Julie Miller, also senior writer, to talk about |
| 0:27.8 | Comic-Con. She and Joanna are headed out there, which is very exciting, and Richard and I are actually kind of blissfully |
| 0:33.5 | ignorant of what's coming down the pike so we're excited to hear from you guys |
| 0:38.7 | what's to come in the meantime we got lots of other stuff to talk about we're gonna talk about. |
| 0:43.0 | about the Emmy nominations which have come out. |
| 0:46.0 | We're going to have a civil debate about Ghostbusters. |
| 0:52.0 | And then we're going to talk about Stranger Things, the Netflix series that might be an Emmy |
| 0:57.8 | contender in 2017. |
| 1:01.2 | And then at the very end of the show, will re-litigate the 1983 best picture and I will explain why later. |
| 1:08.0 | But first let's talk about the Emmy reactions and Richard you wrote up the snubs and surprises post for us. |
| 1:12.0 | So what's the big standout thing that Richard you wrote up the snubs and surprises post for us. |
| 1:12.6 | So what's the big standout thing that sort of made you scratch your head or pull your hair out? |
| 1:17.2 | Well, it wasn't so much to scratch my head or pull my hair out. |
| 1:20.6 | It was more of a confirmation of something that we've noticed happening |
| 1:23.6 | and this was not you know this was not Julianna Margulies not getting nominated for the good wife |
| 1:27.3 | and you know there were there were some general you know fan outrageous but for me the most |
| 1:31.1 | telling thing about sort of our TV and political landscape was that this for the first time since 2001 |
| 1:36.7 | The Daily Show is not nominated in the Best Variety Series category. So that basically was almost John Stewart's entire run every season that show was nominated and this year with Trevor Noah at the helm it was not which you know is a kind of striking |
| 1:51.3 | example of the way that that handover with between Stewart and Noah didn't quite work out and it came at a time when there had been some kind of unfortunate |
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